Ybor developer Darryl Shaw donates property to live-work artist studios
By Ashley Gurbal Kritzer
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Jun 22, 2023

Ybor City developer Darryl Shaw has donated property to Tampa Arts Alliance that will become the home of 75 live-work artist studios.

The alliance on Wednesday said Shaw has donated 1610 E. Third Ave. to the organization. Its plans for a building on a 23,000-square-foot plot of land with approximately 75 live-work units, 2,500 square feet of gallery and amenity space as well as 3,000 square feet of arts organization space. The exact size of the building isn't yet known.

The facility will be known as Artspace.

“We started with assessing the need in Tampa for this project with an arts market study. The results of this study released in 2021 show an imperative need for affordable live/work space now,” said Neil Gobioff, chair of the Tampa Arts Alliance, in a statement.

The alliance has raised $150,000 over the last 18 months to fund pre-development work on the project. It needs to raise another $600,000 for the project’s next phases, which include design, financial modeling and the launch of fundraising.

“Cultivating the arts and realizing a wide range of housing options in Ybor City are two critically important goals for our community,” Shaw said in a statement. “Artspace moves us closer toward accomplishing both, and I’m very excited to see this project continue to move forward.”